6/20/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 6/23/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS Step Functions TestState now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

AWS Step Functions now offers TestState in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. This expansion allows customers operating in these regions to test individual states of their workflows without creating or updating existing state machines, helping to enhance the development and troubleshooting process for their applications.\n AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service that enables customers to build distributed applications, automate IT and business processes, and build data and machine learning pipelines using AWS services. TestState allows developers to validate a state’s input and output processing, test AWS service integrations, and verify HTTP task requests and responses. With TestState now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, customers can test and validate individual workflow steps. TestState supports various state types including Task, Pass, Wait, Choice, Succeed, and Fail, with tests running for up to five minutes. This feature is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions, in addition to all commercial regions where AWS Step Functions is available. To learn more about TestState and how to incorporate it into your workflow development process, visit the AWS Step Functions documentation. You can start testing your workflow states using the Step Functions console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or AWS SDKs.

Amazon EC2 R7g instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage.\n Amazon EC2 Graviton3 instances also use up to 60% less energy to reduce your cloud carbon footprint for the same performance than comparable EC2 instances. For increased scalability, these instances are available in 9 different instance sizes, including bare metal, and offer up to 30 Gbps networking bandwidth and up to 20 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). To learn more, see Amazon EC2 R7g. To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor for Graviton. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers Reserved Instances for R7i and M7i instances

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle offers Reserved Instances for R7i and M7i instances with up to 46% cost savings compared to On-Demand prices. These instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and provide larger sizes up to 48xlarge with 192 vCPUs and 1536 GiB of latest DDR5 memory.\n Reserved instance benefits apply to both Multi-AZ and Single-AZ configurations. This means that customers can move freely between configurations within the same database instance class type, making them ideal for varying production workloads. Amazon RDS for Oracle Reserved Instances also provide size flexibility for the Oracle database engine under the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) licensing model. With size flexibility, discounted rate for Reserved Instances will automatically apply to usage of any size in the same instance family. Customers can now purchase Reserved Instances for Amazon RDS Oracle in all AWS regions where R7i and M7i instances are available. For information on specific Oracle database editions and licensing options that support these database instance types, refer to the Amazon RDS user guide. To get started, purchase Reserved Instances through the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK. For detailed pricing information and purchase options, visit the Amazon RDS for Oracle pricing page.

Amazon EC2 C7i-flex and C7i instances are now available in 2 additional regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex and C7i instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Europe (Zurich) Regions. These instances are powered by powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) custom processors, available only on AWS, and offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers.\n C7i-flex instances expand the EC2 Flex instances portfolio to provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive workloads, and deliver up to 19% better price-performance compared to C6i. C7i-flex instances offer the most common sizes, from large to 16xlarge, and are a great first choice for applications that don’t fully utilize all compute resources. With C7i-flex instances, you can seamlessly run web and application servers, databases, caches, Apache Kafka, and Elasticsearch, and more. C7i instances deliver up to 15% better price-performance versus C6i instances and are a great choice for all compute-intensive workloads, such as batch processing, distributed analytics, ad serving, and video encoding. C7i instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge, and two bare metal sizes (metal-24xl, metal-48xl). These bare-metal sizes support built-in Intel accelerators: Data Streaming Accelerator, In-Memory Analytics Accelerator, and QuickAssist Technology that are used to facilitate efficient offload and acceleration of data operations and optimize performance for workloads. To learn more, visit Amazon EC2 C7i Instances. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.

Amazon EC2 M7i-flex and M7i instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i-flex and M7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers.\n M7i-flex instances are the easiest way for you to get price-performance benefits for a majority of general-purpose workloads. They deliver up to 19% better price-performance compared to M6i. M7i-flex instances offer the most common sizes, from large to 16xlarge, and are a great first choice for applications that don’t fully utilize all compute resources such as web and application servers, virtual-desktops, batch-processing, and microservices. M7i deliver up to 15% better price-performance compared to M6i. M7i instances are a great choice for workloads that need the largest instance sizes or continuous high CPU usage, such as gaming servers, CPU-based machine learning (ML), and video-streaming. M7i offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge, and two bare metal sizes (metal-24xl, metal-48xl). These bare-metal sizes support built-in Intel accelerators: Data Streaming Accelerator, In-Memory Analytics Accelerator, and QuickAssist Technology that are used to facilitate efficient offload and acceleration of data operations and optimize performance for workloads. To learn more, visit Amazon EC2 M7i Instances. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.

AWS Lambda announces native support for Avro and Protobuf formatted Kafka events

AWS Lambda now provides native support for Avro and Protobuf formatted Kafka events with Apache Kafka’s event-source-mapping (ESM), and integrates with AWS Glue Schema registry (GSR), Confluent Cloud Schema registry (CCSR), and self-managed Confluent Schema registry (SCSR) for schema management. This enables you to validate your schema, filter events, and process events using open-source Kafka consumer interfaces. Additionally, customers can use Powertools for AWS Lambda to process their Kafka events without writing custom deserialization code, making it easier to build their Kafka applications with AWS Lambda.\n Kafka customers use Avro and Protobuf formats for efficient data storage, fast serialization and deserialization, schema evolution support, and interoperability between different programming languages. They utilize schema registry to manage, evolve, and validate schemas before data enters processing pipelines. Previously, customers were required to write custom code within their Lambda function, in order to validate, de-serialize, and filter events when using these data formats. With today’s launch, Lambda natively supports Avro and Protobuf as well as integration with GSR, CCSR and SCSR, enabling customers to process their Kafka events using these data formats, without writing custom code. Additionally, customers can optimize costs through event filtering to prevent unnecessary function invocations. This feature is generally available in all AWS Commercial Regions where AWS Lambda Kafka ESM is available, except Israel (Tel Aviv), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Canada West (Calgary). To get started, provide your schema registry configuration for your new or existing Kafka ESM in the ESM API, AWS Console, AWS CLI, AWS SDK, AWS CloudFormation, and AWS SAM. Optionally, you can setup filtering rules to discard irrelevant Avro or Protobuf formatted events before function invocations. To build your function with Kafka’s open-source ConsumerRecords interface, add Powertools for AWS Lambda as a dependency within your Lambda function. To learn more, read Lambda ESM documentation and AWS Lambda pricing.

AWS License Manager now supports license type conversions for AWS Marketplace products

AWS License Manager now supports license type conversions for AWS Marketplace products, initially for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and RHEL for SAP products. Using AWS License Manager, Amazon EC2 customers can now switch Red Hat subscriptions between AWS-provided and Red Hat-provided options from AWS Marketplace without re-deploying instances.\n License conversion empowers customers to optimize their licensing strategy by seamlessly transitioning between different subscription models, whether purchased directly through EC2 or from the vendor in AWS Marketplace. Utilizing the license type conversion process, customers are now no longer required to re-deploy instances when switching licenses, reducing downtime and IT operational overhead. By switching their license, customers can negotiate custom pricing directly with vendors and transact through private offers in AWS Marketplace. This new flexibility allows customers to consolidate their vendor spend in AWS Marketplace and maintain preferred vendor relationships for support. License type conversion for select AWS Marketplace products is available in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where AWS Marketplace is available. To get started, customers can configure Linux subscriptions discovery through the AWS License Manager console, AWS CLI, or License Manager Linux subscription API, and create a license type conversion. For more information and to begin using this capability, visit the AWS License Manager page or AWS Marketplace Buyer Guide.

Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet is now available on Amazon Bedrock in London

Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet hybrid reasoning model is now available in Europe (London). Claude 3.7 Sonnet offers advanced AI capabilities with both quick responses and extended, step-by-step thinking made visible to the user. This model has strong capabilities in coding and brings enhanced performance across various tasks, like instruction following, math, and physics.\n Claude 3.7 Sonnet introduces a unique approach to AI reasoning by integrating it seamlessly with other capabilities. Unlike traditional models that separate quick responses from those requiring deeper thought, Claude 3.7 Sonnet allows users to toggle between standard and extended thinking modes. In standard mode, it functions as an upgraded version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet. In extended thinking mode, it employs self-reflection to achieve improved results across a wide range of tasks. Amazon Bedrock customers can adjust how long the model thinks, offering a flexible trade-off between speed and answer quality. Additionally, users can control the reasoning budget by specifying a token limit, enabling more precise cost management. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is also available on Amazon Bedrock in the Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon) regions. To get started, visit the Amazon Bedrock console. Integrate it into your applications using the Amazon Bedrock API or SDK. For more information, see the AWS News Blog and Claude in Amazon Bedrock.

Amazon IVS Real-Time Streaming now supports E-RTMP multitrack video ingest

Starting today, you can use E-RTMP (Enhanced Real-Time Messaging Protocol) multitrack video to send multiple video qualities to your Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) stages. This feature enables adaptive bitrate streaming, allowing viewers to watch in the best quality for their network connection. Multitrack video is supported in OBS Studio and complements the existing simulcast capabilities in the IVS broadcast SDK. There is no additional cost for using multitrack video with Real-Time Streaming.\n Amazon IVS is a managed live streaming solution designed to make low-latency or real-time video available to viewers around the world. Visit the AWS region table for a full list of AWS Regions where the Amazon IVS console and APIs for control and creation of video streams are available. To learn more, please visit the Amazon IVS RTMP ingest documentation page.

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